Bernadette Brady is a Tutor at the Sophia Centre for Cosmology in Culture at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. She is the author of Cosmos, Chaosmos and Astrology (2014).Darrelyn Gunzburg is a Tutor at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is the editor of The Imagined Sky: Cultural Perspectives (2016).

• List of FiguresList of MapsList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction: Darrelyn Gunzburg and Bernadette Brady (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) Foreword: Professor Christopher Tilley (Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology, UCL)PART I: PREHISTORIC CONVERSATIONS 1. Frank Prendergast (Technological University, Dublin): The Archaeology of Height—cultural meaning in the relativity of Irish megalithic tomb siting.2. Anna Estaroth (University of Wales Trinity Saint David): How the shadow of the mountains created sacred spaces in Bronze Age Scotland.PART 2: MEDIEVAL CONVERSATIONS3. Jon Cannon (University of Bristol): Time and place at Brentor: exploring an encounter with a ‘sacred mountain’.4. Darrelyn Gunzburg (University of Wales Trinity Saint David): Building Paradise on the Hill of Hell in Assisi: Mountain as Reliquary.PART 3: ANIMISTIC CONVERSATIONS 5. Fiona Bowie (Research Affiliate, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford University): Mountains as sources of power in seen and unseen worlds. 6. Amy Whitehead (Massey University, New Zealand): Appalachian animism: religion, the woods, and the material presence of the mountainPART 4: STORIED CONVERSATIONS7. Bernadette Brady (University of Wales Trinity Saint David): Mountains talk of kings and dragons, the Brecon Beacons.8. Christos Kakalis (Newcastle University): Representing the Sacred: Printmaking and the depiction of the Holy Mountain.PART 5: CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS9. Lionel Obadia (Université de Lyon / ANR): ‘Sacred’ Himalayan peaks: for whom? The paradoxical and polylogical construction of mountains.10. Alan Ereira (Professor of Practice, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David): The Black Line of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta; a Red Line for a mountain.

This book is a unique transdisciplinary contribution that, like a mountain itself, stands at the intersection of heaven and earth, of myth and ritual, of people and the world around them. By drawing attention to these themes across different spatial, temporal and cultural brackets, the infinitely citable essays contained within highlight the significant role, meaning and agency afforded by the iconic landforms.